Health Documentation and Administration
Higher Vocational Training

Health Documentation and Administration

What do you study in Health Documentation and Administration?

If you are interested in healthcare as well as organisation and data, this vocational programme is for you. You will learn to manage all the information that keeps a hospital or health centre running, from patient admissions to the coding of clinical diagnoses.

  • Patient management: admissions, discharges and allocation of healthcare resources
  • Clinical terminology and pathology for understanding medical documents
  • Filing and organising medical records
  • Coding diagnoses and medical procedures
  • Health information and classification systems
  • Office software tools applied to healthcare settings

After completing the programme, you will be able to work as a healthcare documentation technician, clinical records manager or healthcare information systems specialist, with direct career opportunities in hospitals, clinics and health administrations.